Uttal
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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by "wait for".)
- (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
- (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
- (obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
- (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
- (obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).
Substantiv
- A delay.
- An ambush.
- (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
- (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
- (in the plural, archaic, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
Exempel
- Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion.
- — J'ai failli atteeeeendre.
- — I’m waitiiiiing.
- The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
- Hark! are the waits abroad?
- an enemy in wait
- They laid in wait for the patrol.
- I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
- to wait dinner
- Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide.
- He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.
- She used to wait down at the Dew Drop Inn.
- Wait here until your car arrives.
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
- Haste, my dear father; 'tis no time to wait.
- They also serve who only stand and wait.
- The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf.
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